人类世批评话语体系的建构——21世纪西方气候小说研究面面观

Introducing 21st-Century Western Cli-f Studies

21世纪的西方气候变化小说研究,经过十余年的积累,于2015年左右进入爆发期,成果涌现之快、数量之多,实属罕见。气候变化小说从不同角度和尺度言说人类世,气候小说研究则成为人类世生态批评话语体系建构的重要内容。本文围绕人类世言说何以可能、何以言说人类世、谁的人类世等问题,对已有研究成果进行系统梳理和评析,重点考察西方学者对气候变化小说叙事策略、社会功能的分析和多重后现代批判。论文还对气候变化小说研究的总体趋势和得失进行阐述,为中国学者开展具有中国特色的气候小说研究,并参与到人类世生态批评话语的建构提供建议。

With more than a decade of development, cli-fi studies has experienced an explosion of interest since 2015, a rare phenomenon in terms of the speed and number of published academic books and papers in the area. Cli-f focuses upon the disclosure of the Anthropocene from various angles, and cli-f studies represents the discursive construction of Anthropocene criticism. This paper is a prolegomenon towards a complete and comprehensive study of Western cli-f studies at present, exploring ways in which the Anthropocene can be represented, how it is embodied, and whose Anthropocene it is. It critically surveys Western responses to cli-f narrative strategies and their social function, and interrogates various multi-layered postmodern criticisms of cli-fi.Analyzing the characteristics, tendencies and weaknesses of previous research, it aims to shed light on the future of cli-f studies in China.